The Archive · 1937

Marines' Service

Following closely on the service fat the cemetery was the speci 'Memorial Day service at the Fourth Marines' Church, Cathay directed by the Regimental Chaplain, Lieut. Frank R. Hamilion, Standing room was at a premium, and many were unable to secure seats in' the crowded auditorium.

The address was given by Mr. Clarence E Gauss, who said that at Washington on Memorial Day representatives of the Army and Navy SUll gathered In memory of the dead, ud the custom was also observed by Americans in foreign countries, who were joined by. their friends. of different nationalities.

There were people who held up war as romantic, and a training ground for ideal manhood, continued Mr. Gauss, enforcing as it did supreme sacrifice and discipline. Peace, however, could be as romantic as war, and the same virtues could be developed. "War inevitably inter= Fupted human progress, and redirceted the whole course of individual and collective effort, disrupting all cultural activities. In time of peace,

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